Charlo Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Hive mind request... The Death Guard's story seems quite fractured across all of the HH written/ spoken media... What are the best stories and where do I find them involving the XIVth? Hell, any are appreciated! I've read most of the Path of Heaven which is obviously a gold mine for Mortarion as well as heard his little Daemonology short. Warpmiss 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_F_D Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 I quite liked Distant Echoes of Old Night I'd also recommend looking at the Death Guard appearance list on @Tymell's page. Sulemain and Warpmiss 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpmiss Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 I quite liked Distant Echoes of Old Night I'd also recommend looking at the Death Guard appearance list on @Tymell's page. There really isn't much about the Death Guard out there, is there? I'm hoping we get more DG stories as the Siege approaches because this feels underwhelming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlo Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 They said at the Heresy weekender that the last book before the Siege kicks off will be the DG's fall to Nurgle in transit to Terra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymell Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 (edited) Cheers for the link RFD But yeah, the Death Guard have alas had very little coverage overall. But we have at least got confirmation of their novel coming just before the Siege (even if we don't know the author yet). We'll also have Mortarion's Primarchs book to look forward to at some point. For me, the best ones they've had so far are Daemonology and Blackshield, maybe Exocytosis too. Flight of the Eisenstein was also good IMO, but more of a Garro book than a Death Guard one specifically. Edited February 19, 2018 by Tymell Tarvek Val 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantay VI Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Were they not also in Path of Heaven. and towards the tail end of Scars or brotherhood of the storm (the duel with the Khan). Admittedly these were not DG centric novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpmiss Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 I haven't read PoH yet, too much stuff to read and not enough time! But I really want to as I loved Mortarion in Scars. Mortarion's is the Primarchs book I want to read the most and I'm really hoping that we get at least a Thypon/Typhus book either as the one covering the fall to Nurgle of the DG or as a separate book altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlo Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 May have to check out Blackshield in that case... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 There is more Mortarion in PoH than in Scars. It's relatively sparse, but whenever he features you get a lot of character work - and PoH is among the best HH books anyway. Warpmiss 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlisimo Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 The Path of Heaven is my favorite of the novels. Unfortunately for you, I'd say you learn more about Mortarion in Scars than in tPoH. He does get some screentime, but the Emperor's Children are the primary antagonists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 You get his interaction with the corrupted Horus, though. carlisimo 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarvek Val Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Flight of the Eisenstein is a good place to start, though as someone in this thread already mentioned, it does focus mainly on Nathaniel Garro and his band of legionaries than the Death Guard legion as a whole. The first time I read the book, I thought it was a bit slow; I have re-read it twice since then and enjoyed it more each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagashnee Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Reading this thread makes me realise how shafted some legions have been by the heresy series, i know a book focused on their fall to nurgle is coming at some point tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Iron Hands got absolutely shafted. Ended up with their story tidied up in a way that seems to have upset a lot of fans, in another Legion's book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Forgot to mention Blackshield. Heaps of DG character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 I just wanted to mention Blackshield, when I saw this thread again. Read it a couple of days ago and it's good. One could say a typical Wraight. :) Though it's "just" a short, I'd love to see this to continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwell84 Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Flight of the Eisenstein does focus on Garro but I think the first part does a decent job of showing the latter Crusade-era DG. Swallow showed the rifts between Terran and Barbaran legionaries, personified by Garro and Grulgor, their customs such as the post-battle cups (only Mortarion would celebrate by drinking poison ), and the bitterness which drove most of them to the Warmaster's side. As noted elsewhere, Mortarion more often appears in 'other legions' books', but at least he's portrayed 'positively' in that the Warmaster considers him one of his few reliable allies and gives him important tasks to handle. But I do agree that the DG should've had more screentime than, say, the Shattered Legions. At least the Forge World history books are retroactively fixing that. Lord Marshal 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 (edited) See, I really think FotE neglected to get into the Legion's character. Grulgor's an arse and disdainful of weakness, but there's nothing else to him. Issvtan III feels smaller than it should (like Temeter is leading a company of a hundred as opposed to a force numbering in the tens of thousands, and that's a bigger issue earlier in the book) and while there is a "we are the Death Guard and we fight like this" moment it doesn't really make them look that impressive. Plus it feels like there's a weird lack of history between Garro and Mortarion. Edited March 18, 2018 by bluntblade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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